You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The ...

Current distribution across the Amazon Basin of (a) fish species, (b) Arrau turtle, and (c) river dolphins analyzed by the study. Image courtesy of Caldas et al. (2023). “Today, if we look at ...

Veteran diver and photojournalist Thomas Peschak reflects on a multi-year expedition aimed at Amazon science and storytelling ...

Far from smoothie bars and powdered sachets, these wild Amazonian juices are pulped just hours after picking – making them ...

The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers of forest each year from 2001 to 2016. By 2021, about 17% of the basin had been deforested. Changes to forest cover can affect ...

The Amazon River basin is experiencing an unprecedented drought, with water levels plummeting to historic lows across the region. This environmental crisis is affecting navigation, wildlife ...

the Mississippi River is the third-largest river basin in the world, only outranked by the Amazon and Congo River basins. The Mississippi River basin collects water from 31 states and its ...

Amazon Express expedition leader West Hansen ... or is it the most distant point up the longest tributary in the river's drainage basin? The current internationally accepted definition is the ...

Getty Images As climate change warms the Amazon basin, the rainforest may become drier, like the areas bordering the Boiling River (Credit: Getty Images) "I thought it was great," says Chris ...

All of the major rivers in the Amazon basin are at critical levels, including the Madeira River, the Amazon River's longest tributary. The Negro River drains about 10 per cent of the Amazon basin ...

The Mississippi River basin drains more than 40% of the continental ... How does it compare to the Amazon and Nile? Most lists of the world's longest rivers combine the Missouri and the ...